Ex-Accountant General defends Ifmis
The man at the centre of procurement of the now problematic Integrated Financial Management Information System (Ifmis) former accountant general Reckford Kampanje today told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament that the system is near perfect.
Kampanje appeared before PAC where he outlined how the software for Ifmis was procured and challenges that have led to theft of billions of kwacha.
Kampanje, who was accountant general between 2004 and 2008, said the software was procured on recommendation from development partners as part of the conditions to attaining debt cancellation.
“To my knowledge, Ifmis did not have loopholes. The system had a project team who didn’t report any serious breaches of the system. I am saddened and it is quite unfortunate to hear that there were some officers, who were sharing passwords, to the extent of pinning them on a wall and defeating internal controls,” Kampanje said.
Kampanje also parried away allegations that security modules of the Ifmis software were not included during the purchase, arguing that information technology would not have recovered deleted transactions had that been the case.
He also denied being stopped from proceeding with an audit into the ministries following revelations of K450 million theft in 2011 when he was auditor general.
In earlier meetings with Chief Secretary to Cabinet and current Auditor General Stephenson Kamphasa, the committee heard that a former secretary to the Treasury verbally stopped the audit office from proceeding with investigations after the preliminary audit.
Meanwhile, the committee failed to continue a meeting with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) acting executive director Atuweni-Tupochile Phiri because she would not disclose information the committee wanted to know.
Her responses irked Thyolo Thava MP Lifred Nawena who said her appearance was meaningless because she would not tell them anything.
This idiot ugly Phiri why she is not providing the information? Which wakwithu is she hiding? Stupid woman.
PAC please stop behaving like a toothless dog. We are meant to believe that you’re mandated to execute your responsibilities by law. If this person is not willing to give responses why was he/she accepting to appear before PAC? Solution is just to apprehend her and lock her up with a charge that of with-holding vital information to protect an accomplice. Assumptions could be that the idiot is also a criminal and as such feels a prison sentence is the outcome if she decides to reveal the racket. Possibly she feels the top top fish is going to be known. Definitely there should be means of making that plonker talk. Tell her that the money involved belongs to all the hardworking Malawians who apparently had their salaries deducted only for them to devise criminal intents to defraud every Malawian.
That is wise talk bro, fair enough for that matter!
But these JB and PP appointees especially from the ambwenumbwenu group seem to think that Malawi is for them and JB alone. They have led in looting our tax money and now they want to prove arrogant even to PAC. Do they still think that they are what they thought they are? They can go to hell with their pride.
Iwe mnkhoma kwali ndiwe muchewa u are stupid. Why always against the northerners. Who said you must go to school? These MPs are dunderheads they ask for some information which are crucial to the cases at hand hence she was n ot obligged to provide all. Being mchewa is nothing special and I am a proud Tumbuka and will always be without fear.
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